There are some other B-Side albums that are perfect and better than many of their band’s full lengths (The Smashing Pumpkins’ Pisces Iscariot, Modest Mouse’s Building Nothing out of Something, Alkaline Trio’s self-titled), but I’m not sure if those count for this thread since the artist sequenced them.

If that one’s allowed (fwiw, I think it’s one of the greatest albums ever) then I’m predictably going to officially throw Pisces Iscariot into the mix. I honestly might prefer it to any proper full length by any other band.

If soundtracks count then there’s a bunch of those;
Natural Born Killers, American Graffiti, Saturday Night Fever, The Harder They Come, Apocalypse Now, Reservoir Dogs, Pretty In Pink, The Blues Brothers…

Soundtracks where the music is all made specifically for the given film are different but ones that are random tracks pretty much slung together because they are in the movie, count in the same way a B side comp does i guess. Somehow there’s an unintended consistency of mood.

I thought the thread was more so for albums assembled by someone else other than the artist - like if the label or someone accidentally created a great album by assembling their songs. I probably read too much into it.